Post Production and Edit Support Engineer

Coda Post Production has an opportunity for a Post Production and Edit Support Engineer.

About Us

Coda is a well-established boutique post-production facility, specialising in high-end picture and audio, from documentaries to commercials to promos and feature films. 

We work closely with high-profile broadcasters and production companies producing factual, scripted and short-form content for BBC, Discovery, Netflix, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, Virgin Media, Nat Geo and Disney to name a few.  We have two facilities in London Fitzrovia W1, and a third facility in the heart of The Lanes in Brighton.

The Role

Your main tasks and responsibilities are:

• maintaining our servers, networks, offline, grade, and online suites across our three facilities

• installing edit software and maintaining hardware

• taking on daily IT and network administration tasks

• supporting our editors, colourists, mixers and producers
• maintaining and devising backup solutions both locally and to cloud storage.

Candidate Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

• a strong IT knowledge
• an excellent understating of post-production processes

• the desire to learn quickly
• the ability to build and maintain PCs
• a strong working knowledge of Avid Nexis and other shared storage devices 
• a good working knowledge of Avid Media Composer, Pro Tools, Adobe Premiere, and DaVinci Resolve
• a strong knowledge of IT networks
• as we are a small, boutique company, the desire and willingness to work with our edit assistants on day-to-day edit assisting which can be tailored to your interests.

Personal Qualities

The ideal candidate will be:

• calm and methodical approach even under pressure
• an outstanding multitasker, able to prioritise and juggle many different aspects of the role

• a good communicator and team player

• able to take the initiative and problem-solve to tight deadlines

• able to communicate complex technical workflows
• hugely attentive to detail.

Salary

£30,000 to £40,000 per annum depending on skills and experience.